Coexistence

The show is a call for empathy and solidarity that transcends species.

  • 26.4.2019–1.3.2020
3rd floor

Yhteiseloa Ihminen, eläin ja luonto Kiasman kokoelmissa. Kuva: Kansallisgalleria / Pirje Mykkänen.

How is nature presented in contemporary art? And how are humans interpreted as relating to other species?

The Coexistence exhibition looks at the relationship between humans and nature. Environmental issues, nature, and human coexistence with other organisms are topics of long-standing interest in art, but they have recently come into sharper focus amid the eco-crisis of the 2000s.

The exhibition invites us to consider exactly whose ‘good life’ we mean and calls into question the place habitually awarded to the human as above nature and other animals and as their sovereign.

Featured artists

Lauri Ainala & Kalle Hamm & Dzamil Kamanger, Lauri Anttila, Felipe de Ávila Franco, Torben Ebbesen, Andris Eglītis, Olga Florenskaja & Aleksander FlorenskiSimryn Gill, Terike Haapoja, Paavo Halonen, Alma Heikkilä, Jussi HeikkiläHannaleena HeiskaOuti Heiskanen, Marja Helander, Emma Helle, Nancy Holt, Felicia Fasanino Jansson, Muriel Kuoppala, Richard Long, Pia MännikköFanni Niemi-JunkolaOtobong Nkanga, Johan Oja, Sari Palosaari, Roland Persson, Outi Pieski, Kati Roover, Charles Sandison, Alan Sonfist, Jenna Sutela, Maija Tammi, Niina Tervo, Ingrid Torvund, Elina Vainio, Timo Vaittinen, Sergio Vega, Stuart Wrede and Charlotta Östlund.

Publication

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue Yhteiseloa | Coexistence, A Museum of Contemporary Art Publication 166 / 2019.